High Frequency Training WITHOUT Joint Pain
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Want to get even more jacked? Grab the RP Hypertrophy App for your training, and maximize your gym efforts with the RP Diet Coach App to nail your nutrition.
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Five Nights at Freddy's chaos
03:30 - Mike's "performance" issues
04:44 - Cialis/Viagra as "pre-workout pump," what it does/doesn't do
08:30 - Post-photoshoot reset: diet/training overview + plan setup
17:41 - Arm/shoulder emphasis: training arms 6x/week + managing flare-ups
20:33 - The "heavy → moderate → light" 3x/week frequency model (with exercise variation)
39:14 - Why joints hate high frequency (and how exercise selection helps it)
53:13 - Wrap-up: holidays, deload timing, and goals for the next block
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to the RP Strength Podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Nick Shaw, joined by the one, the only Dr. Mike. |
| 0:11.0 | What up, big homies. |
| 0:12.4 | What up, playa? |
| 0:14.0 | What up, Nick? |
| 0:15.3 | Shit. |
| 0:16.6 | Shit. |
| 0:19.2 | All right. |
| 0:20.4 | Mike, I went with my 13-year-old son last night to the movies and saw five nights at Freddy 2. Are you familiar with it? No. Okay. Good. What? I'm not either. I don't know too much about it. There's a two, and I'm not even familiar with the one. Yeah, it's a thing. Yeah, |
| 0:37.5 | it's a thing. Okay. So it was opening night. So, oh, it was like the most packed I've ever seen this movie theater near me, like 15 minutes from where I live. I mean, I couldn't even park in the parking lot. I had to park in like the, grocery store parking a lot. So yeah, Apparently everyone is out. |
| 0:55.5 | But we're walking in. |
| 0:56.9 | So it was me, |
| 0:57.4 | my son and his friend. I had to park in, like, the grocery store parking a lot. So, yeah, apparently everyone is out. |
| 0:55.5 | But we're walking in. |
| 0:56.8 | So it was me, my son, and his friend who lives in our neighborhood. |
| 0:59.5 | And I see all these people dressed up. |
| 1:01.5 | They're like, I don't know, probably high school age girls, something like that. |
| 1:06.4 | I'm not like dressed up. |
| 1:07.3 | And I'm like, you know, Zach's my son. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm like, Zach, like, what are they dressed up and I'm like yeah it was Zach's my son I'm like Zach like what are they dressed up as is like oh I think they're going to the same movie so like oh and Mike it was it was |
| 1:16.2 | really interesting because have you ever been in a movie where people stood up and applauded |
| 1:20.7 | during the movie during during yes during oh my god with five times. Where are we with this? |
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